Some time ago I was looking at this product (waterborne lacquer by Sherwin) and got no responses here. It’s fairly new, and likely not many have used it. I thought it might interest some to know what it is / does.

If you’re doing strictly new homes, read no further. You probably won’t use it. If you’re doing renovations where the homeowner is still around and the furnace is still on, this might make your life a little easier.

It’s acrylic, waterborne, and lacquer. It doesn’t do well with an airless, but comes out fantastic from a pot or a cup gun. Dry time to sand is about 20-30 minutes. Separate sealer / top coats, scuff sand between. Don’t use tack rags, blow it off with compressed air to keep white particles from lodging in the grain. It sticks to regular nitro lacquer.

Where it’s useful – I’m doing a basement. The homeowner is there. The furnace and the water heater are gas and in the basement. I hate the look of pre finished. You get the little white lines at the cuts, your nail holes show, etc. With this, you can finish it on the wall like it should be. I shot the whole basement, all three coats, with sanding, in just under four hours. I had a window open and a fan. No odor upstairs, minimal down, which dissipated in 20 minutes or so. You don’t need a mask other than for the particles.

It’s fairly new stuff on the market, but I’m sold. I thought it might be useful to other remodelers to be able to use something like that, maybe even sales pitch it – I can give you a beautiful finish, it’s lacquer, but the down sides are gone and you won’t smell it when you go to bed at night.

The only disadvantage to some is speed. Regular nitro is undeniably faster. Moot point, I believe. Quality beats speed.

FWIW